Go birds! What's going on everybody and good morning. Today is Monday, April 13th and this is your daily Go Birds morning update giving you all the Eagles news you need to know as well as what to keep an eye out for today. And happy Monday. I'm excited to be back. Took the weekend off, was in Cape May for the weekend. Had unbelievable time. Super cool town. Had a lot of time. There was very cool to see. Had a great time. But you know what? I'm excited to be back because we got a big week coming up on the Go Birds pod. We're continuing our draft coverage for the week. Taking a turn to the defensive side of the ball later today. We'll talk about all the safeties in the 2026 NFL Draft. An interesting position for the Eagles for sure. And we'll talk about that at length in that pod which should be in your feed soon. We're going to talk about the edges, the defensive tackles, linebackers, corners. We're focusing on the defensive side of the ball this week. But as you know, the Eagles continue to focus on the wide receiver position as they make a trade. And here's what I would say to Howie. Like Howie, I know you don't take me into consideration when you make these trades. You're not sitting there at the Jefferson Health Complex. By the way, saw a new signage up at the Jefferson Health Complex was driving down. Driving down south broad. Saw it up there. Looks pretty good. But regardless, I know Howie doesn't sit there and say, should I make this trade now? But he could start making trades at normal times of the day. I feel like every trade and signing he's made this off season has been like after seven o'clock at night. Or I get to Cape May on Friday. It's beautiful, excited to be there, relaxing, sitting down with Kristen to get a drink. And of course, the Dontavian Wix trade drops right there. So you know, Friday end of the day, no one really wants to work. Let's try to get some trades going at normal times here. But while that is a little annoying, the exciting thing is I got a lot to say about the Dontavian Wix trade. And I'll start by saying this, even though it happened Friday at, you know, closing hours, I really, really like the trade. I think it's an awesome trade for the Eagles. Give up very minimal draft compensation. And I'm going to get into a bunch of different thoughts, the type of player, how much he's played, the routes he runs, all those type of different things. But just on a simple level, you give me a nearly six to 25 year, 24 year old wide receiver, long arms, good route runner who wins contested catches, who has a history with the offensive coordinator and hasn't reached his potential because he played limited snaps. Sign me up. Like this is exactly who the Eagles should be going after. I didn't love the Hollywood Brown signing. I like the Elijah Moore signing a little bit more now and we'll talk about how they fit in. I think these things make sense to me. It's like, what are they really doing? Right? Dontavian Wix is exactly who the Eagles should be targeting as they try to, you know, reshape this wide receiver course. So really like the player, really like the physical makeup of the player. Love the history with Sean Mannion. Anytime you can have someone in the building that's been around that player in a very real sense too, right? Like on the coaching staff on the offensive side of the ball the last two years, that's very helpful. He knows Dontavian Wix strengths. He knows his weaknesses. He knows him as a person. He knows how he'll be in that locker room. He knows about bringing him into the building. So I love the familiarity with Sean Mannion, but I just love the untapped potential. I think that Wix still has and you've heard me talk about him because they played the Packers like four times in the past two years, right? And when I look at that receiving core, I always say they got a lot of dudes, a lot of dudes there. And Dontavian Wix was one of their guys. So the fact that the Packers traded him for not a ton, obviously like you have to keep expectations realistic. And while I love the trade, I love the player. I think it's great value. You also have to realize they gave up, you know, late round picks. He was available to any team in the league, but they also gave him $12 million in 2027. So I saw Zach Berman of the athletic put it this way. And I think it's a really good way to view it. This is the biggest investment they've made in a receiver since AJ and Devonte, right? Devonte obviously has gotten a big contract. AJ has gotten two big contracts with the Eagles. Devonte also used a, was it 10th or 12th? I can never remember because of all the maneuvering around, but used a high draft pick on him as well. Since then they've not invested a ton in the receiving core. This $12 million and we'll see how much of it's fully guaranteed. Obviously we know 12 million could really mean 6 million, right? But it's a financial investment in a player at this position. They've not made since AJ or Devonte. So I really like the trade. I like the logic behind it. And I like the player. Now, why do I like the player? Let's talk about some things I like about him. First I like that he's, I like that he is young and hasn't played a lot of snaps. You've heard me say it this off season. The Eagles offense looks slow and old last year to me. And it was especially apparent when they went up against some offenses. It had like electric fast young receiving cores and electric fast like offensive weapons. Then Tavi and Wix is not a burner. Like he's not, you know, John Ross or whatever, but he is someone that's not played a lot of snaps and he has fresh legs. So in 2025, he only played 40% 47% of the snap snaps 2024, 54% 2023, 47%. So he's not been on the field a lot. In fact, in his career, he's only played 1452 snaps. Just to put that in perspective, not that snaps is the end all be all. AJ Brown, who is, you know, they're kind of swapping out here, right? Just over, yeah, 5,674 snaps in his career. And he played just about 900 last year. And he's played, I think, more snaps in the last two years than done. Tavi and Wix has played in his entire career. Now, obviously, AJ is a better player than Wix, right? AJ is proven in a way. Don Tavi and Wix is not. But there's just something to getting someone on the offense that has not been run into the ground over the past few years that hasn't played, you know, tons and tons of snaps. Whose best football is hopefully ahead of him, as opposed to probably already passed his physical peak. So I like adding someone to the offense where you can just look and go, OK, this guy is young, he is hungry, he is not ultra paid so far. This is the biggest most most of my money he's gotten his career, the 12 million dollars. And he knows he has a chance to really make himself some money. And I think he comes to this team excited to play and excited to prove something. And I think this Eagles offense has had a lot of guys on the offense side of the ball, especially last year, don't really feel a need to prove much, right? AJ is proven, Devonte is proven, Saquon is proven. The entire offensive line, other than Tyler Steen, has been paid and made Pro Bowls. Don Tavi and Wix immediately steps on the roster and becomes somebody that will play hard and will be very, very motivated to prove himself. So I really like that about him. He's young, he hasn't played a lot and he's unproven. And then we talk about the athlete, right? You look at what he was in the 2023 draft compared to other players in that draft class. So I know it's a relatively small sample size. We're not comparing him to ever receiving the NFL right now, but he was 90th in the broad jump, 90th percentile, 85th percentile in vertical jump, 87th percentile in hand size. And then 65th percentile in arm length. So not as high, but you watch him, the arms look long, right? He just looks like a big body out there. And it backs up in the fact that he is really good at contested catches or at least has shown an ability to do that. So big body can jump really high, big hands, long arms. There's just a lot to work with there as an athlete. So why did the Eagles and why were they able to get him for the relatively low draft costs that they did? Well, he's had a career of extreme so far in limited snaps, but a career of extremes. And I think the two things that really stand out to me about him are, A, his ability to make contested catches and B, the issues that he's had with drop. So we'll start with the drops because that's probably the biggest negative knock on him as a player. So I think this really comes from 2024. In 2024, he had nine drops. Now he's not getting 152 targets. So you're talking about nine drops on a relatively low amount of targets. In 2024, he had 76 targets. That was 18 percent of his targets were dropped. Needless to say, that was near the top of the league for every receiver that played, you know, more than four or five snaps, right? So in 2024, he has nine drops and that really sets a tone like this guy struggles to catch the ball. But I think it's worth noting in 2023 and 2025, his drops were not as bad. In 2023, his first year in the NFL, two drops, only 4.7 percent of his targets were dropped, not like an outstanding number on a relatively low amount, but it certainly is not an alarming amount. Two drops. And what do you have that year? 2023, 58 targets. So not terrible. 2025 last year, 46 targets, three drops, 9.1 percent. And that's high. 9.1 percent, even on a, even though it's not 18 percent, is still relatively high. So you look at the issues, it's really been 2024 where he had the main problem. And then 2025, he was better at it for sure, but still 9 percent, not great. So the drops are something he'll absolutely have to work on. Again, you hope that with the familiarity Sean Manion has with him. And Nick Siriani, I think has done a very good job developing players. He is an offensive coach. He played receiver in college. Like Eagles have not had issues with drops. Also, Jalen Hertz does throw a very catchable ball. Now his accuracy last year, I do think took, took a step back, but overall in his career, Jalen has thrown catchable passes. The issue with Jalen as a passer is not normally accuracy. Again, last year aside, last year, accuracy was an issue for him at times. But his ball placement throughout his career has been good. So that as well could help with the drops. But while the drops, I think the issue is a little overblown, it is definitely something he has to work on. So he rebounded nicely in 2025 off a bad 2024. And we'll see if he can take another step forward this year with those drops. But what he has shown a really good ability to do and has been improving on is contested catches. So, you know, he does create separation that something we'll talk about in a minute. There was some good stats there on his ability to do so. But you look at just his ability to catch passes where the coverage is tight, 50-50 jump balls, those type of things. Last year, he had 11 targets that qualified as contested catches. So a low number, right? Like this is not a number one receiver amount of targets. But he caught almost 64 percent of those contested catches. So he caught seven of the 11 contested targets that came his way. And that was good for 10th in the NFL last year with all receivers that had more than 10 contested targets thrown their way. So, you know, working the numbers a little bit here, I would say. But still, I think it paints a picture of somebody that can be pretty good at coming down with passes where the coverage is tight. And again, why is he good at that? He's long, he's physical. He can jump high, big hand. So like he has the makeup of somebody and has shown the ability to make contested catches, which is why the drops is certainly something that you think can be fixed, right? It's like he's got small hands, so the ball is just hard for him to grab. He's got big hands. He can hold on to the ball and he's got strong hands by the fact that he can make the contested catches. It's just something he has to be better at. Now, like I said, a career of extremes. 2025, he's very good at the contested catches. 2023, he's pretty good at contested catches. 2024, down year for him. Again, the nine drops that year and also only four contested catches on 16 targets that were considered contested targets. So not a good 2024 for him, but a bounce back 2025. Now, what else do you want to know about him? I thought this tweet was simply hysterical. It was factual and it's a good stat, but you have to it just it just makes you laugh. So this is via the great Deniz Seldman on Twitter. And you look at the amount of route, the routes that Don Tevion Wicks ran and what was his top amount. So first of all, last year on the Packers, no player on the Packers ran this route more than Don Tevion Wicks. And when you look at the amount of routes he ran, he ran this route more than any other route. He ran it more than crossing routes, corner routes, go routes, out routes. I'm, of course, talking about everybody's favorite route, the hitch route. That's right. The 2025 Packers, the receiver that ran the most hitch routes, Don Tevion Wicks, the route he ran more than every other route. Hitch route. Last year, 22% of his routes were hitch routes. And 22% again, was the highest on the Packers. Like Romeo Dobbs ran at 17% of the time. The tight end must grave 16%. So he runs the hitch route a lot. He runs it well. Some of you prior wondering, well, why is he in Miami with Kevin Petulo? Well, we know why because Jalen likes to run and throw hitch routes. And he's been good at it and it's something they do a lot of. So it's just good to know. Now, I know you're sitting there, maybe screaming at the phone and going, we don't want them to run hitch routes. And the fact you only ran 8% crossing routes is pretty funny when everybody thinks they're going to be running so many crossing routes this year. But it's good to know that the route that they might have to end up having him run quite a bit this year, he's good at. They like what they see and he has experience doing it. So just very funny that he ran. He has run so many hitch routes. Now, the encouraging thing is, and you read reviews of his, of his play, not only in Green Bay, but coming out of college. And he's considered a good route runner. And I thought this tweet from Ted Seth of Synide Schemes, very cool website. You should check it out. Is encouraging. So he tweeted, quote, very cool move by the Eagles to trade for Donteve and Wix. He had an 87% Tau yards per route run his rookie year and has been around 50th percent Tau since then, but churns out first downs in 2024. He was elite at separating, but struggled with some drops. Last season, he wasn't as good of a separator, but got better at catching the ball. The Eagles are likely trading one of the top target earners versus man coverage in the NFL and AJ Brown, which was first on the Packers in targets per route run versus man, the past two seasons. So there's a fit there. And quote. So what does that say? Hey, he's really good versus man coverage, right? Or at least he has shown an ability to be good versus man coverage. Obviously we know the Eagles dominated man coverage of past few years with AJ Brown and Devonte Smith. Donteve and Wix is not those players. He'll have to improve, but he's showing signs that he can do it. And not only just in man coverage, you see there 86% Tau in yards per route run his rookie year. And then since then 50th percent Tau, which is not anything to write home about, but for a receiver that's not getting a ton of snaps and you got for late round picks, I think that's an encouraging thing. So again, you know, Ted mentions in there a career of extremes, 2024, great at separating, didn't catch the ball last year. Not as good at separating, got better at catching ball. So catching the ball. So the Eagles need Donteve and Wix to put it all together so that he can become a guy that can be dependable into passing game. But it's very clear they have big plans for him and they expect him to be a big part of, uh, of this offense. Now, the last thing I'll say about him as a player before we talk about the fit and what this means is one thing I like, and I think this is very noteworthy, the dude tries hard as a run blocker and the pat and the pat and the run blocking grades back that up 2024. He was a very good run blocker 2023. Very good run blocker last year. Not as good score wise run blocking, but you still saw the effort and this can't be overstated. Last year there was effort problems with the Eagles receivers and frankly, sometimes a tight ends in run blocking. They didn't look like they wanted to run block. Now, why would you if you're AJ Brown, right? Like, why would you if you're Devonte Smith? Now they should because they're part of a team and all those things matter, but this is another part of having now players and key members of the offense that have something to prove. Donteve and Wix has the biggest year of his career coming up. And if he plays well, he'll get paid. He'll become a starting to receiver on one of the best teams in the NFL. Like there's a lot for him there. So you know what he'll do when he's out in asked to run block? He'll run block and he'll try and he'll put effort out on it. And I do not think that's something that should just be looked past because this team struggled with effort and run block last year. And run block, there's a skill to it. You have to have size. He does have that. There's obviously technique to everything, but it's also mostly just effort. And the effort last year was poor in the run blocking game. And I think the effort this year will be better in the run blocking game because Wix will be part of the team. All right, now let's talk about the fit and how he how he fits on this Eagles team. So obviously, Devontae Smith is going to be wide receiver one. He's the best receiver on the roster. He is he's earned the number one receiver role. He is paid like the number one receiver. So he will be the top wide receiver. Wix will step in as the number two receiver. I think that's pretty clear. Now, he's not making a lot of money this year, but when they gave him $12 million for the following season, 2027, that tells you they got big plans for him as as a receiver. So I think day one week one, barring injury. Devontae will be the one Wix will be the two. Hollywood Brown will be the three. And then I think that fourth wide receiver spot will be a competition between Elijah Moore and Darius Cooper to kind of be that fourth wide receiver. I think it could be Cooper. It could be Elijah Moore. Is there a world where one of them is so impressive? They are wide receiver three. Yes, but because of the money Hollywood Brown got, he'll have to really lose that spot and someone will have to really take it from him. So Devontae one, Wix two, Hollywood three, and then Elijah and Cooper competing for the four, then you have other guys on the roster. Johnny Wilson, Quest Walkins, Danny Gray, Britt and Covey. Like there'll be other guys competing, but I think those are the main players right now in the passing game. And then of course there's the draft. I don't think this excludes them from taking a receiver in the first round. Now I did my first mock draft of the 2026 off season this past Sunday. It's in your feed. Of course I did it before they traded for Duntavian Wix because your boy tried to get away to Kate May for a weekend with nothing happening. Of course they make a trade as soon as I set foot in Kate May. But regardless, I think they could still take a receiver in the first round. If I was doing that mock draft again and I had a choice between Denzel Boston and Katelyn Proctor, I would probably lean Proctor more than I did that time. But I don't think the two years of Duntavian Wix, Devontae Smith, like those are the only two guys locked in on this team for the next two years. Right. I don't think that stops you from taking a Denzel Boston. It doesn't stop you from taking a Jordan Tyson. It, you know, makes you need him less, but I don't think it stops them from doing it. So I think they could still take a receiver in the first round. And then of course when we're talking about the passing game, Dallas Goddard will once again feature in it quite a bit and we'll see if they draft a tight end. But what they're putting together is a nice little skill group. Like again, they don't have a Jamar Chase. They don't have a Justin Jefferson. They don't have a Jackson Smith and Jigba, but they got guys. And I think the combination tells you they're going to spread the ball around more than they have ever in the Nick Siriani offense. If you look at the Packers and how they did things, right? So we'll use the Sean Manion where he's coming from. The Packers had four wide receivers over the past two seasons. So 2025 and 2024, each of those two seasons, the Packers had four wide receivers within those seasons with 40 plus targets. So they had guys getting the ball a lot, spreading it around injury, a small part of that because, you know, Jayden Reed misses some time. Christian Watson misses some time. So there are guys stepping in and out, but they have spread the ball around in Green Bay. The Eagles have not had four wide receivers with 40 plus targets since 2015. So 10 full seasons since they have had a passing game where multiple players are getting a good amount of targets. I think that is going to change next year. They when they have game planned the past few years, it's been, all right, let's game plan how to get AJ the ball. Let's game plan how to get Devontae the ball. Let's game plan how to get God at the ball. And there'll still be some of that. But I also think what there will be is let's just run the play and will like scheme against the defense as opposed to scheme to getting a guy open. And I'm overstaying that a little because they were still doing that the past few years. I just think they're going to spread the ball around more. And I think they're receiving course kind of setting up nicely for that. Like Devontae is a good player. Wix, I think in a larger role, can be good. Hollywood Brown don't like him as a wide receiver to, but as a wide receiver, three where you also have some other guys and maybe you add someone in the draft, like not terrible. Elijah Moore has been decent in his career. Darius Cooper showed potential. Just a lot of guys there that I think can do the jobs they'll be asked for. And I think they'll have guys fill roles as opposed to building an offense around having two top guys. Now, of course, when I talk about this receiving core, I'm not even pretending that AJ Brown is going to be a part of it. And that is the last takeaway from the Dontevian Wix trade. AJ Brown is not going to be on the 2026 Eagles. Financially, you saw them hand money to Dontevian Wix. Dontevian Wix wouldn't want to come here and sign an extension. If he was once again, not going to play a ton. We went over this with Hollywood Brown. We went over this with Elijah Moore. We went over this with every move they've made. Everything speaks to AJ Brown not being here. And you know what else tell AJ Brown is not going to be here? When they traded for Andy Dalton, how he made it clear. This has nothing to do with Tanner McKee. Now, we've not heard from how he yet, but you notice when they traded for Dontevian Wix, the national reporters or any of the local guys were not putting out, hey, this has nothing to do with AJ. They're trading AJ Brown. AJ Brown, 99.9% will not be on the Eagles. You never know what's going to happen. Things could fall through or whatever. And if they do, I mean, man, they're in an interesting position there because AJ is going to want the ball. They're spreading the ball around. Wix becomes a three like Hollywood's an expensive four. It just doesn't make sense with AJ here anymore. Now, again, getting Dontevian Wix is not replacing AJ Brown, but it's building a new receiving core that I think you can be excited about. Well, also acknowledging man missing AJ, if he's the guy he has been, is going to be a big mess. But that is very clear. They are planning for life without AJ. And if they have AJ for some random reason, then maybe they'll like, you know, they'll figure it out. But I bet you anything, if you look in the Jefferson Complex at their depth chart, they don't even have AJ on it. Like I bet you he's at the bottom because they are viewing this roster and building this roster and making moves on this roster for a non-AJ Brown wide receiver core. So those are all my thoughts on the Tavian Wix trade. Really, really like it. Excited to get to meet them. Excited to cover them. Can't wait for trading camp. But yeah, I really like the trade. All right, let's get into a few more things here. So first up, I thought this was a cool note. So props to Bleeding Green Nation, BLG, our guide does a really good job kind of, you know, collecting information and interesting things. And these next two things are via him. But this first one I thought was really good. So we talked about the hiring of offensive line coach Chris Cooper this off season. I mean, not a great resume, got fired in Minnesota. But according to John McMullen, sports illustrated, one of the reasons they hired Fangio or Lee, wow, spoiler. One of the reasons they hired Cooper was because they got a strong endorsement for they got a strong endorsement of him from Vic Fangio. So John McMullen writes, quote, multiple league sources confirmed that Fangio, now in his third season as Eagles defensive coordinators and one of the most respected defensive minds of football, strongly endorsed Cooper for the job. And quote, so the resume is the resume, right? It's not been good in Minnesota, but I think Nick does a good job hiring coaches. And if Fangio is in on him and like has respect for him as a coach, I think that's a positive sign. So we'll see again, not not big on the hire, but that's an encouraging note to know about the about the hire. All right, on the other side, we're going to get into something that I thought pretty interesting over the weekend. I've pushed back against this idea pretty hard, but not going to lie. I'm starting to potentially get into the idea that Miles Garrett could end up on the Eagles. So that'll be on the other side. But first, a word from our sponsors. Okay, so if we're not talking about AJ Brown, it feels like we're always talking about a big name edge that could be on the move. And if that player could end up on Philadelphia. So a lot of this off season, that's been Max Crosby, right? It feels like every, every other day, two times a week, we're getting different, like, Oh, the Eagles could be in a Max Crosby or Max Crosby might get traded. The Eagles make a ton of sense. And it's never really made sense to me because of his knee history, his history with knee problems and also his age and his contract. Last year, when Michael Parsons was available, I was skeptical that Eagles would give up the, the draft capital that it would take to land, uh, Michael Parsons. Now, Michael Parsons said that, excuse me, that the Eagles were in on him. It didn't end up happening. You know, I think until you actually do it, it's fair to be skeptical if they will. But one player I think might supersede all of the, like, how he's never paid an edge, big money, how we won't trade draft assets for a big, for a player that's not a quarterback, big draft assets. Um, all those things, Miles Garrett could be the exception to the rule. And I'm not going to lie. My antennas are kind of up on watching Miles Garrett and thinking he could end up with the Eagles. So Miles Garrett and why, why is this happening? Well, one of the reasons is that Miles Garrett redid his contract, which we will talk about, uh, in a second, right? But Miles Garrett, there has been a lot of trade speculation for him this off season. And he's not been, at least at the time of this recording, he's not been at the voluntary off season workouts. And I believe, according to some reporting, he has not talked to new head coach Todd, uh, Todd Munkin. Now, apparently he wanted Jim Schwartz to be the head coach. He went with Todd Munkin. So he's not at the voluntary workouts. He's not talking to the head coach. And this was said on ESPN. So I'm going to play, it's a bit of a long clip, but, uh, here is Kevin Clark, um, who I think does a good job covering leave a great job covering the league talking about the Miles Garrett situation. Jason McCordy made this clear yesterday. It is voluntary guys. Mike Tannenbaum sit on the other side of that table is Miles Garrett's absence from the off season program, something or nothing. It's capital S something. You just mentioned Peter last year, they gave him a record setting deal. He is their best player by far. You have a rookie head coach and Todd Munkin, who were trying to establish his program. If we go back 10 days ago, the juxtaposition was Lamar Jackson showed up for Jesse Minter to tamp down any noise, any speculation. The juxtaposition is what Miles Garrett just did. Everyone's going to speculate. They move back to roster bonuses to later in the off season. Why did he not show up? I'm disappointed that he's not there because he could have helped set the tone of, Hey, this is a new day, a new program. And I am all in, even though it is voluntary as Jay Mac alluded to, he didn't have to necessarily stay for the whole off season, Peter, but he is sending a message by not being there. Kevin, it's one of these deals where we talk about it all off season. You got the money, Mike's talking about it. Two first round picks. If you're a team, would you offer that for Miles Garrett? If you're the Cowboys, would you give both your first round picks and say, Yeah. Yeah. And the Brown should be listening. It might capitalize the S. I'm capitalizing the whole word in something. You're giving up a million dollars because you don't want to hang out with your coworkers. That's always a red flag. I'm putting up the windy fingers. Okay. Mike Tannenbaum already alluded to it. The contract has been restructured. The bonus went from the league year, which was a couple of weeks ago to the start of regular season. So the Browns aren't paying out that bonus. What's going on in Cleveland? I think if you're a team that contends right now that needs Ed Rush help, which by the way is about 31 teams that needs Ed Rush help, maybe 10 of them will be better situations this year. I'm calling Cleveland. I'm offering two first round picks because I'm trying to figure out what's going on. So it's worth noting that Andrew Barry has made it clear he is not going to trade Miles Garrett. Good for him. He has sold it better than how he has with AJ Brown, but also say this, like action speak louder than words. And while Andrew Barry can talk all he wants about the fact he won't trade Miles Garrett, they redid his contract this off season to make it easier to trade him. That was the, that was what happened because of the restructure contract. This is according to overthecap.com, who does an unbelievable job, you know, talking about these cap things and keeping up with salary cap things. He writes quote, by deferring the option, the trade window for the player, Miles Garrett, extends well into the summer. For example, if Garrett had his option picked up today, the cost to trade him on the cap would have been 70.3 million on a trade during the draft and then split over the summer. So post June 1st trade to 20, 21 million for 26 and almost 50 million in 27. If he was traded in the summer, the acquiring team on his old contract would only be responsible for two to three million in salary for that year with the delay. So the new contract, the cost to trade Garrett during the draft is now $41 million. So 30 million less than it was before in the cost to trade him in the summer would be 15 and 26 and 25 million in 27. So significantly less there as well. The acquiring team would be on the hook for 31 to $32 million in salary in the Browns O Miles Garrett, nothing a similar situation exists next year where the delay to trade cost is 58 million during the draft. And then a post June 1st trade will be 17 and 31 million split between 27 and 28 and traded in the summer end quote. So I offered some care commentary and they were reading it, but the message is clear. The new contract makes him easier to trade and puts the financial burden on the new team as opposed to the Browns if he were to be traded because the note in there about how the Eagles, whoever team might trade for Miles Garrett would only been responsible for two to three million in salary if they were to acquire Miles Garrett. Now there's a possibility of course, Miles gets a new contract if he's traded. So maybe the Eagles would pay him more cash, but just off a trade, they would know him a lot. Now they would owe him 31 to $32 million in salary for this year and next year. So they would owe him a lot of money. Again, the Eagles, if they were to acquire Miles Garrett would probably do a new contract where they pushed the cap hit down and all that stuff. But the point of making is this, it is way, way easier to trade Miles Garrett than it was before. And they did that for a reason, right? Miles Garrett doesn't seem happy in Cleveland. Now he signed a big contract last year, then complained about losing last year. I don't think you really get to do that if you, you signed the contract. And I do think his 23 sacks last year, it's just not as impressive record as like Saquon's near rushing record. Cause you didn't win anything. It didn't matter, right? But as much as Michael Parsons, because of his age is an appealing and upside player, right? As much as Max Crosby's had a great year and a career, no player is close to Miles Garrett when it comes to getting after the quarterback. He honestly might be the closest thing we've seen to Reggie White since Reggie White. Miles Garrett has 125 sacks in 134 games. That is absurd. He has 51 sacks in his last 50 games. He has hit the quarterback 239 times in 134 games. He is the top level quarterback. I mean, uh, edge rusher. This is like, and this is why I said quarterback, like how Mahomes for those few years was like right on number one in pen when you're making a list. Tom Brady, the goat quarterback, number one on your list in a pen, because there is that big of a gap between one and two. Miles Garrett, he is older than Michael Parsons, but man, he is a way better player than Michael Parsons is. So if I'm Howie and while he doesn't pay a lot of money for big edges, uh, big money for edges and while Miles Garrett does turn 31 at the end of the year on December 29th, so the age thing is there. He plays every week and he dominates the game on like any defensive player in the NFL in a really long time. So my antennas are up. And I'll also say Kevin Clark saying this, Kevin Clark is at league events. Saw him in Arizona, very plugged in interviews guys all around the league GM's head coaches. If he says his antennas are up, then I think my antennas should be up. And I think the Eagles are the team that would be in on it. We know how he values big trades. We know how he values the edge position, at least to an extent. And we know that Miles Garrett, if he's going to go, is going to want to go to a winner. He is Andrew Barry and how we have a relationship. You trade him out of the division. I mean the conference completely. I am more convinced than I used to be that Miles Garrett could play the 2026 season in Philadelphia. All right, that'll do it for today's daily podcast. It is Monday. It is a new week. Let's dominate this week and let's have a good one. The safety pod will be out later today. And then we'll talk to you guys throughout the week. So until then, he's Elliot. I'm James. Talk to you guys later.
